Sabic Commissions Ethanolamines and Ethoxylates Complex, the First in the Mideast

7:46 AM MDT | June 3, 2012 | Natasha Alperowicz

Sabic announced on Saturday that its affiliate Saudi Kayan (Jubail, Saudi Arabia) has shipped its first consignment of ethanolamines and ethoxylates from its manufacturing plant at Jubail, making Saudi Arabia the first country in the Mideast to produce and market these products. The complex, designed to produce a combined 100,000 m.t./year of mono- di- and tri-ethanolamines and 40,000 m.t./year of ethoxylates, marks Saudi Arabia’s entry into specialty chemicals manufacture. The first shipment went to customers in Saudi Arabia and the Arab...